Utah Education Network
Uen: Reading Fluency
This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.
Other
Typing Club: Learn Touch Typing
Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Math for Everyone
Provides online programs and explanations on everyday math: calculating a tip at a restaurant, determining the sale price of an item, finding the odds of winning a lottery, computing simple and compound interest, and more.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Timing a Speedbot!
Students strengthen their communication skills by first learning the meaning of base units and derived units. Then, working in groups, students measure the time for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and calculate the robots' average speeds at...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion With Marbles
For this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Waves and Sound
Students will understand and predict wave phenomena, and investigate the energy contained in waves. They will gain a deeper understanding of waves and wave interference that will enable characterization and engineering of matter from the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Velocity 1
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using mathematic equations for speed and velocity students will breakdown one dimensional motion.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Collision Course (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a two-part lesson on understanding how speed changes when two objects collide. Students will conduct an experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion
Given diagrams or scenarios, students will measure and graph changes in motion.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: The Biomechanics of Pitching
The goal of this sports science fair project is to learn more about the biomechanics of baseball pitching. The student will investigate if stepping forward and the length of the step affects the speed of the pitch. The Science Buddies...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Speed
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad calculates the speed of each broom.
BBC
Bbc: Revise Wise: Measures
This teaching site has interactive exercises using different types of measurement. You will measure length, capacity, area, perimeter, time, weight, temperature, and speed.
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Riding at a Constant Speed [Pdf]
Assess students understanding of proportional relationships with this assessment using speed.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.3 Time, Velocity, and Speed
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the relationships between instantaneous velocity, average velocity, instantaneous speed, average speed, displacement, and time; Calculate velocity and speed given...
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: K Ps2 2: Motion Design Solution
The NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach how to analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull. Included are assessment ideas, videos,...
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 4 Ps3 1: Motion Energy
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-PS3-1: motion energy.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: A Change of Direction Exploring the Impact of Forces
Learners will be able to determine a way to change the direction of a moving object by conducting a simple experiment. Included in this lesson are videos of the activity in action, a printable recording sheet, pictures of the set-up for...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Rules of Forces and Motion
With this hands-on lesson plan, help students understand force, gravity, friction, and speed. Students will also learn how each of these concepts affects the another.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rollin' On
Activity shows how gravity affects the motion of an object rolling up or down a hill.
Utah Education Network
Uen: May the Best Force Win
The greater the force applied to an object, the greater the change in speed or direction of the object.